this study explores how and to what extent recent developments in hermeneutical philosophy and methodology can be applied to religious studies, and particularly to questions that have a political focus. it begins from the assumption that it is possible to apply hermeneutics to interpreting the koran and religious questions. in addition, apart from relativist hermeneutics, other classical approa...

Is Philosophical Hermeneutics Self-Refuting? Carlo Davia I "takes as its task the opening up of hermeneutical dimension in full scope, showing fundamental significance for our entire understanding world all forms."1 By this Hans-Georg Gadamer means that his philosophical hermeneutics is a theory not just textual interpretation, but how we understand and find meaningful richness. This an ambitio...

There is still considerable doubt and even anxiety among simulation modelers as to what the methodologically correct guidelines or procedures for validating simulation models should be. Epistemically, the approaches one finds in the simulation literature run the gamut from objectivist to relativist with shades in between. At present in the philosophy of science, there appears to be a convergenc...

The paper gives a broad overview and evaluation of research that has been done with regard to hermeneutics in Information Systems (IS). The approach is interdisciplinary, combining insights from the humanities with the IS discipline. After introducing the theme of hermeneutics, with a focus on philosophical hermeneutics, the relevance of hermeneutics for the natural and human sciences is descri...

The recent popularity of Dynamic Equivalence in translating the Bible justifies a closer scrutiny of it, particularly in light of the growing interest in biblical hermeneutics which it parallels. A comparison of the disciplines of D-E translation and hermeneutics reveals a large amount of similarity between the two. The similarity exists whether one compares D-E to traditional hermeneutics or t...

The paper explores Paul’s engagement with the Scriptures of Israel from the point of view of (his sense of) marginality, which invites a postcolonial perspective on his hermeneutics. It first briefly considers the deployment of postcolonial criticism in biblical studies, followed by a consideration of the value of postcolonial theory for Paul’s biblical hermeneutics. Four areas where postcoloni...

There is increasing interest in hermeneutics as a research approach in the field of information systems. However, the problem facing researchers is that there is a paucity of information on the application of hermeneutics for empirical research in the social sciences; indeed, there is very little guidance on what exactly constitutes a hermeneutic method for the investigation of social phenomena...

Starting from the often-used metaphor of the “horizon of experience” this article discusses three different types of intercultural hermeneutics, which respectively conceive hermeneutic interpretation as a widening of horizons, a fusion of horizons, and a dissemination of horizons. It is argued that these subsequent stages in the history of hermeneutics have their origin in—but are not fully res...